Smoke and Mirrors Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Christophh630 

Cover art for Smoke and Mirrors lyrics by Paloma Faith

The video confirmed it for me. It's based around when she was magicians assistant with a terrible magician. A relationship and him being a terrible lover is implied but it's totally about a terrible magician who's made lots of bad choices be that cheating on his lover trying to grope Paloma or thought he was a fantastic entertainer and was just not.